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Recent Examples of moralizer
Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant.
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Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralizer
Noun
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One of the men, like Baldwin, had been a boy preacher.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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But some believe a traveling, apocalyptic preacher convinced her that killing Noah, John, Paul, Luke and Mary was the only way to save them from eternal damnation.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
10 Jan. 2026
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When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t get people to stop buying and reading dangerous books.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Garfield, an idealistic moralist, happens to catch his colleagues at a time that even the movers and shakers have tired of the corruption.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Sara Johnson, a political science lecturer at Southern Methodist University, said the federal government’s infusion of relief funding toward child care during the pandemic also prompted the attention of parents and voters.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Jan. 2026
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Krish is a lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Austere antiquity is in constant conflict with more sensual, modern impulses — a tension that feels productive applied to a story of the Shakers, puritans whom time has proven too pure for this world.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
1 Sep. 2025
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Bud, the harried father and the parent readers get to know best, tracks the arrival and departure of cargo for Alabaster Harbor, a busy port owned by Paul Alabaster, a mysterious shipping heir and tech billionaire.—
Niela Orr,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2026
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One of the license-plate-reader cameras near East County Line Road and South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch alerted Douglas County deputies to a match for the suspect’s vehicle, Weekly said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
13 Jan. 2026
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Reconciliation today Searching for a path forward, contemporary Sámi artist and Lutheran catechist Lars Levi Sunna began to produce church art that incorporated and celebrated pre-Christian Sámi symbols – some of the very traditions that had been demonized by clergy of the past.—
Thomas A. DuBois,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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But Philip Siphong Onphitak, the village religious teacher, or catechist, assumed leadership of his flock, keeping up resistance until Dec. 16, when he was murdered in the jungle, reportedly by Boonlue.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
18 Nov. 2019
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“Moralizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralizer. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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